Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
けん
Grade: S
こう
Grade: S
こつ
Grade: 6
kan’on
Alternative spelling
肩胛骨
 肩甲骨 on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology edit

Probably from written Chinese 肩胛骨 (jiānjiǎgǔ). The original sense in Chinese is unclear; it may have been shoulder blade, scapula, or it may have been more generally just shoulder bone.

First cited in Japanese in a medical dictionary from 1872.[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • (Tokyo) んこーこつ [kèńkóꜜòkòtsù] (Nakadaka – [3])[2]
  • IPA(key): [kẽ̞ŋko̞ːko̞t͡sɨᵝ]

Noun edit

(けん)(こう)(こつ) (kenkōkotsuけんかふこつ (kenkafukotu)?

  1. shoulder blade, scapula

Usage notes edit

This was originally written as 肩胛骨. The more common modern spelling 肩甲骨 uses the slightly simpler character instead of .

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ 肩甲骨・肩胛骨”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN